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Rio De Janeiro to Invest 1% of Its Treasury in Cryptocurrency
16.1.2022
Rio de Janeiro, one of the largest cities in Brazil, will invest part of its Treasury in cryptocurrencies. The announcement was made by the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, during Rio Innovation Week. The plan is to turn the city into a cryptocurrency-friendly hub, and there are other tax incentives...
Meme Coin Markets Gain Close to 5% in 24 Hours, Dogecoin’s Value Jumps, 3 Meme Tokens See Triple Digit Gains
15.1.2022
The top meme tokens by market capitalization have increased in value by 4.4% in the last 24 hours according to statistics. Dogecoin had a good week jumping more than 20% during the last seven days. However, 14 meme tokens surpassed dogecoin’s weekly jump as a few tokens have seen...
Halo Infinite's Cosmetics Will Be Cheaper Starting Next Week
15.1.2022
Since Halo Infinite’s multiplayer was released in November of last year, the free-to-play shooter’s cosmetics and microtransactions have been heavily criticized and debated, with many feeling the prices on in-game items are too high. According to 343 Industries, things are about to change. Starting...
Stablecoin USDC’s ERC20 Issuance Surpasses USDT’s Total Supply on Ethereum
15.1.2022
On Saturday, January 15, 2022, the market capitalization of all the stablecoins in existence is $173 billion, which represents 7.93% of the $2.18 trillion crypto-economy. The market valuations of stablecoins tether and usd coin represent 71.84% of the entire stablecoin economy’s value. This...
'Insane Luck at Work' as Second Solo Bitcoin Miner Wins the Block Race in a Week
13.1.2022
Another solo Bitcoin (BTC) miner with a hashrate capacity of 116 terahashes per second (TH/s) has won a block race on the Bitcoin network, securing the block reward of BTC 6.25 plus a fee reward of BTC 0.018 -- cumulatively worth over USD 274,041 at current rates. ...
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Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 2
10.1.2022
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. ...
Kazakhstan Is Stabilizing, Government Claims as Crypto Miners Look to Future in Country
10.1.2022
The situation across Kazakhstan, hit by anti-government protests in the first week of the year, is normalizing, central authorities claim. The country’s massive crypto mining industry, which faced an internet blackout during civil unrest on top of power shortages, now hopes that the country...
'Most bullish macro backdrop in 75 years' — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
10.1.2022
Can 2022 still turn out to be a bull year? Not many believe so, but short-term volatility should pass nonetheless, analysts say this week
The Week In Games: God of War and Monster Hunter Arrive On PC
10.1.2022
This week sees the release of some previously console-only games on PC. The God of War reboot-sequel-thing hits PC on January 14 and Monster Hunter Rise lands on PC two days earlier on January 12. Read more
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LINK, ICP, LEO, ONE
9.1.2022
LINK, ICP, LEO and ONE could rebound if traders sense that Bitcoin's selling is near completion
‘Making a Stronger Impact Artistically’ — An In-Depth Discussion About NFTs With System of a Down’s Serj Tankian
9.1.2022
Last month, the lead vocalist of System of a Down, Serj Tankian, hosted an art exhibition with the non-fungible token (NFT) platform and marketplace Curio NFT. The physical and virtual-melded art show was called “Not for Touching” and this week Tankian told Bitcoin.com News that...
Fed’s Outgoing Vice Chair Richard Clarida’s ‘Rebalancing’ Trades Ignite Fed Trading Ethics Scandal
8.1.2022
Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve are getting criticized this week after the central bank published its minutes report from the policy meeting on December 14-15. Following the update, the outgoing vice chair of the Federal Reserve’s trading activities has reignited ethics conversations....
$2.7 Billion in NFT Sales Recorded Last Month — Ethereum, Ronin, Solana Top 3 NFT Networks
8.1.2022
This week Google Trends shows that the acronym NFT, which stands for non-fungible token, has reached a score of 100, the highest score a search query can get from the data analytics aggregator. Meanwhile, statistics indicate that during the last 30 days across ten different blockchains...
Mozilla ‘Pauses the Ability to Donate Crypto’ After Complaints and ‘Environmental Impact’ Considerations
7.1.2022
On December 31, the software community founded in 1998, Mozilla, announced it was accepting crypto-asset donations via Bitpay. However, shortly after the announcement, a number of people complained about the decision the company made. A week later, Mozilla has announced it is backing away from...
Interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum Slides According to Google Trends Data, NFT Queries Skyrocket
7.1.2022
While bitcoin, non-fungible token (NFT) assets, ethereum, and cryptocurrencies had an incredible year in 2021, none of the trends made it into Google’s “Year in Search” review. Currently, interest in bitcoin, in terms of Google searches has dropped considerably since the week...
Atomic Week for Cosmos as ATOM Tests All-Time High
7.1.2022
The price of the Cosmos blockchain’s native token ATOM rose sharply in the crypto market today, despite selling pressure from the rest of the market. The gains today follow an extended period of higher prices for the token, leading to a (for now) failed test of its September all-time high....
Solana network faces degraded performance for the second time this week
7.1.2022
Solana suffered a fourth network incident in the span of a few months. Two out of the four network issues happened this week
Coinbase Shares Predictions on Future of Ethereum Scalability, Metaverse, Defi, NFTs
6.1.2022
Coinbase’s chief product officer has shared some predictions for 2022 regarding Ethereum’s scalability, the metaverse, decentralized finance (defi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and more. 2022 Predictions by Coinbase’s Executive Coinbase’s chief product officer, Surojit...
Airbnb Explores Crypto Payments — CEO Sees ‘a Revolution Happening in Crypto’
5.1.2022
Popular travel website Airbnb could soon accept cryptocurrencies for payments, CEO Brian Chesky has hinted. “Like the revolution in travel, there is clearly a revolution happening in crypto,” he added. Airbnb’s CEO Says ‘There Is Clearly a Revolution Happening...
Decentralized Protocol Launch: Panther DAO Votes to Launch Private DeFi Protocol End of January
5.1.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain history was made earlier this week. Thanks to more than 2,560 DAO votes in a Snapshot proposal, the Panther Protocol was voted to be launched in a private, decentralized manner. This constitutes the very first event of its kind, a feature that sets Panther a step towards...